Except the App Store was announced 16 years ago and the 30% cut was definitely part of the announcement. There’s a whole slide with Steve Jobs discussing it 3 minutes in. The other commenter was mistaken.

The AX series, which is what iPads were using before the M series, were precisely the chip family that got rebranded as the M1, M2, etc.

The iPads always had a lot of power, people simply started paying more attention when the chip family was ported to PC.

Yeah. I was just using the A to M chip name transition as an easy landmark to compare against.

> If Tesla presented its numbers the same way that Toyota and Ford did, they would both have higher profits-per-car than Tesla despite selling many cheaper cars

No they would not, and this is a ridiculous thing to say if you had taken even 5 minutes to look at the earning reports of these companies.

Even when accounting for the small differences between car manufacturers on how they make their per-car-profit calculation, they still report their total earnings the same way.

2022 Tesla made $13B selling 1,3 million cars. 2022 Toyota made $18B selling 10,5 million cars. 2022 Ford lost $2B selling 4.2 million cars. 2021 Ford made $17.9B selling 3.9 million cars. (added Ford's 2021 result for a better comparative)

Every car manufacturer does some slight variation on how they get their margins per car figure, but it does not account for major difference you think they do.

1,255k EVs, but only 617k BEVs. They might sell more than Tesla for the whole year, but it’s not trending that way at the moment.

All car manufacturers have had master keys for the past 100 years, it’s not a new concept.

Well it’s the first time I’ve ever had to not give keys when handing a car over, so clearly something is different.